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I'm running ubuntu on some older hardware, it's working fine but I found it was much more usable with a spare 16GB flash drive used for swap.

I've set that up per the instructions and it works fine; however, when I restart the device will not boot. I just get a flashing cursor. The only way I can get it to boot is to remove the flash drive. Any ideas? (it's not trying to boot from the USB as I've disabled USB as a boot device in the BIOS)

Verislinux
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  • Which version of Ubuntu are you using? – user68186 Oct 20 '20 at 13:07
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    20.04 Swap is a little different than 12.04. 20.04 makes it's own swapfile which requires an offset for hibernation. See if https://askubuntu.com/questions/1285207/how-do-you-hibernate-on-ubuntu-20-04/1285218#1285218 is any help to you. also even a fast USB3 drive is slower than a SSD. what does sudo swapon -s say? – C.S.Cameron Oct 20 '20 at 14:40
  • It's version 20.04.1 – Verislinux Oct 21 '20 at 17:29

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